Indian jewels-Beautiful and artistic

India- home of artistic jewelleries.

MEN AND WOMEN throughout ages,have thrived to decorate themselves in so many ways.As a result of this,jewelleries were vreated.India has been one of the countries topped in creation of jewelleries in topmost fashions.This country did countless experiments in developing various types of jewels.This article tries to a glimpse of some jewels used by Indians even now.
Necklaces

The above photograph shows a necklace.In the hollow of the necklace are seen two ornaments used to wear in the ears.At the bottom are finger rings.The design of all these matches one another. So they make a set. Riches prefer to order for jewels in such sets.
Some more such sets are shown here

RINGS -different typesRings are of different types-ear rings, nose rings, toe rings,finger rings, etc.Nose rings give extra look tothe face. It has become further famous now because Sania Mirza, famous tennis star, wears it.Nos rings are also of various types.
Ear ringsEar rings are easy to maintain.They usually do not have any precious stones embedded.Formerly only unmarried girls used to wear them. But now even married ladies wear them as they are more convenient to maintain.Some types of ear rings have dropping chains of 2-3 cmslength.
Finger ringsThese are most widely used rings. They are worn both by men and women.Except thumb and small finger, they are worn on all fingers.These rings are of thousands of different varieties- with and without precious stones embedded in them.Precious stonesThe different types of precious stones used in jewellery are-pearls, red corals, emerald, ruby, diamond,r4ed stones, blue stones, etc.Artificial pearls and American diamonds are also used by not so rich customers.In case of nose rings, diamond is most preferred stone
America-great customer for diamondsIn India, Surat, a prominent city in Gujarat state is famous for cutting diamonds technically and give them good shape. Interestingly, U.S.A. purchases most of the diamonds produced in India
India- How much gold?It is interesting to note that India uses about 800 tonnes of gold every year.Large oart of it imported!Who says India is a poor country?
EtymologyFor the origin and evolution of the word jewel/jewels, you may please refer the following source: .www.websters-online-dictionary.org/je/jewels.html
Mr. K. Vasudevachar, leading jeweller at Shimoga-a city in karnataka, south India, is much experienced in producing various jewels showh here.His firm bears the name-'Harnahalli K.Manjappa &Sons'.The author is much indebted to him for providing some of the pictures shown here.